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	The Rat and Other Poems	by Malcolm Whyman Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	6320 words	Sample 15%
	The first of two volumes of what the author describes as street poetry,after the style of the great Australian folk poet Banjo Paterson. Most of the poems are in a humerous vein and a number are love letters to his beloved Nottingham and its people, others are a refection on the darker side of human nature.
	The History of Liverpool In Verse	by Caroline Doyle Feb. 06, 2012	$4.99	5737 words	Sample 20%
	A selection of 40 poems giving a brief history of the city of Liverpool, including both people and places. Includes many old images.
	Tunnel Vision	by Barnaby Wilde Feb. 05, 2012	Free!	10518 words	Read a sample
	Another collection of quirky verse featuring some longer verses on subjects as diverse as flying saucers, fear of flying and dining room tables. Pausing along the way to ask, what if whales could fly? and do you need more than two pairs of shoes? Featuring 'The Ballad of Wayne and Bill' and 'Flying Over the Atlantic'. Puns and jokes as usual.
	The Breathless Pause	by Moyra Caldecott Feb. 03, 2012	$5.99	9450 words	Sample 20%
	Moyra Caldecott has been writing poetry for many years, and has had many poems published in magazines and anthologies. For the first time, her best poems have been brought together in this book in celebration of her 80th birthday.
	Norfolk In Verse	by Caroline Doyle Jan. 30, 2012	$1.99	1546 words	Sample 10%
	Poetry of Norfolk, England.
	Noir	by dimitrios cofinas Jan. 29, 2012	$2.99	5343 words	Sample 20%
	Noir by Dimitrios Cofinas
	A Little Bit Elephant	by Barnaby Wilde Jan. 23, 2012	Free!	7378 words	Read a sample
	Extra Quirky verses by Barnaby Wilde ... A collection of unrelated verse packed with puns and other strange stuff, including Carpets, Kitchen Appliances and Centaurs, with just a little bit of elephant
	The Perennial Poetry (2011)	by Andrew Staniland Jan. 16, 2012	$2.99	9664 words	Sample 15%
	"The Perennial Poetry (2011)" is a collection of contemporary English Romantic poetry written in classical metre. There are poems about spiritual experience, creativity, love and poetry itself. There are odes and sonnets, including translations of French, Spanish, Italian and German sonnets.
	Gasoline Souls	by Ian Phillips Jan. 15, 2012	Free!	2636 words	Read a sample
	Gasoline Souls is a collection of Poetry inspired by the desires of the human soul. Each poem concerns an emotion albeit love, envy, desire or truth.
	How to Fake an Eye Smile, and other poems	by Shane Dallesandro Jan. 10, 2012	$1.59	3633 words	Sample 20%
	These poems mostly written during the months of October and November 2011 started during a bout of chickenpox are the reflections of a young man on the threshold of growing up. Some are quite provocative and of adult nature so caution is advised. Some are trivial poems,some serious,some humorous. Some even rhyme.
	The Blind Philosopher and the God of Small Things	by Barnaby Wilde Jan. 05, 2012	Free!	7436 words	Read a sample
	A collection of verse full of weak puns and jokes, loosely related by two men with long white beards.
	Not at all Rhinocerus	by Barnaby Wilde Jan. 05, 2012	Free!	6939 words	Read a sample
	A collection of quirky verse by Barnaby Wilde which is not at all rhinoceros. (Well, maybe just a little bit, at the end). A miscellany of verses full of weak puns, old jokes and a sense of the ridiculous.
	Resident Evil	by Moses Samandar Jan. 04, 2012	$0.99	1887 words	Sample 20%
	Poetry Book.
	The Invisible Knight Collection	by Ray Daley Jan. 01, 2012	Free!	4475 words	Read a sample
	A collection of poems written over the course of many years about character from the days of nobility and chivalry and notes on how each poem started life.
	Collected Poems 2011	by Richard Cheesman Dec. 30, 2011	Free!	1398 words	Read a sample
	A collection of 13 pieces of poetry from 2011. Some humourous, serious, short, longer, but all accessible and immensely readable poetry contained within. I hope you enjoy it all.
	Christmas Narrative	by Christian Zajdek Dec. 29, 2011	Free!	545 words	Read a sample
	A four-hundred word narrative poem, with rhyme and meter, that tells the story of a traditional English Christmas, while paying special attention to superstitions, lore and customs.
	Fifty ' Odd ' Poems	by Neil Davies Dec. 26, 2011	$5.99	8065 words	Sample 25%
	A collection of comedy poems ranging from the sweet to the very rude. Some inspired by the things children say. Others by things I have heard or seen, and others various jokes that suit rhyming. There should be a rhyme for all tastes. I hope you find one to make you belly laugh or at leasr make you smile a while.
	Titanic	by James Fitzpatrick Dec. 24, 2011	$2.95	6875 words	Sample 20%
	Titanic is written in ‘Triplicism’ and revolves around a conversation between SO or SM Lightoller (Highest Ranked) surviving officer on RMS Titanic and Millvina Dean a two month old who was carried from the sinking ship. She was steerage, which is third class, and was saved in a bundle of cloth, but would have no memory of what happened.
	The Many Colours of Ink	by Máire Morrissey-Cummins Dec. 22, 2011	$5.00	7588 words	Sample 20%
	After years of working in the Financial world, looking after a husband and two children, I have stopped working and found a creative streak. My husband works abroad and both children have flown the nest so this is "my time" and writing is something new and exciting. I thank my family for their patience listening to me every time I had a new poem and my writing group online, amazing people:)
	A Rainy Evening	by Terry Trainor Dec. 19, 2011	$9.99	28905 words	Sample 5%
	Skipping through meadows of time. By cottage doors and walls, where the honeysuckle stoops, where warm blue sky, adorns homes with beauty and sweetness, sits an old man who has done his days work on this earth, rests in sunshine, the breath of flowers enriching his day.
	Life ...	by Barnaby Wilde Dec. 19, 2011	$0.99	7147 words	Sample 30%
	A collection of verse taking a sideways view of life from birth to death and points between.
	Noontide of the Year's Day	by Terry Trainor Dec. 14, 2011	$9.99	28964 words	Sample 5%
	A book about the beauty and the power of nature two hundred years ago. The people who lived in that era and how they lived their lives. A book of history, beauty and how the elements ruled their lives.
	Poetry Collection	by Kirstyanne Ross Dec. 14, 2011	$1.00	4480 words	Sample 5%
	A Collection of Poetry written over the last two years.
	A Book of Christmas Poems	by Kirstyanne Ross Dec. 14, 2011	Free!	2713 words	Read a sample
	A poem a day for advent.
	Animalia	by Barnaby Wilde Dec. 13, 2011	Free!	5207 words	Read a sample
	Quirky verses with a loosely animal related theme, including armadillos, camels, stick insects, elephants and dodos, but not necessarily in that order.
	The Nonsensical Ramblings of a Beard	by Ashley Paddon Dec. 05, 2011	$1.49	1773 words	Sample 15%
	A small collection of nonsense poetry and haiku.
	Lauren Black Perfume	by Russell Gulliver Nov. 30, 2011	Free!	4506 words	Read a sample
	Russell Gulliver presents Lauren Black Perfume (or Lauren Black Perfume) is a poetry book.
	Ice Melts	by Phyllis Anderson Nov. 27, 2011	$1.99	4381 words	Sample 20%
	My first collection of poetry is inspired by the natural landscape, observations which evoke lasting impressions. Turn each page to reveal a rich treasury of images, ephemeral yet universal topics which are bound to leave a lasting impression in the heart of every reader.
	Quaker Holmes and Other Poems	by Pete Owen Williams Nov. 23, 2011	$1.99	10388 words	Sample 20%
	A collection of poems set mostly in industrial South Wales but also ranging as far away as Chile and General Pinochet, Sierra Leone, Africa. The poems deal with current social and political issues. The collection also includes some performance poems.
	Tracks of Life	by Christopher John Scott Nov. 11, 2011	Free!	1176 words	Read a sample
	A follow up from my successful first book Poems of Life. Taking from life's experiences, I hope you enjoy my thoughts on love lost, infatuation and remembering past loves. These are from the heart.
	A Poem for Me	by Jude Wharton Nov. 03, 2011	$1.50	6810 words	Sample 20%
	This is a selection of some of the poems that I have written over the two years between Autumn 2009 and Autumn 2011. Some of them were written with the intention of being song lyrics and I have written melodies for them, but at the moment I feel they are stronger just as words.
	The Personal Touch	by Joe Solomon Nov. 02, 2011	Free!	7034 words	Read a sample
	A unique collection of poems that are sometimes comical, sometimes satirical, sometimes lyrical, sometimes personal, and sometimes (perish the thought!) political - and sometimes all of these together. A veritable wordfest, tasty and tempting even to those who think they dislike poetry.
	Collywobblers	by Mary Cook Oct. 30, 2011	$2.99	3628 words	Sample 20%
	Collywobblers is an offbeat collection of humour/horror poetry written by British author Mary Cook and published by Betty Dobson's InkSpotter Publishing of Canada.
	From The Mind Of Madness	by Chris Barber Oct. 30, 2011	$2.00	9593 words	Sample 20%
	A poetry book that charts my journey from one extreme to another: from love to hate; from faith to despair; from sanity to insanity and almost back again and from darkness to the divine...
	Ghosts across our landscape - Haunting Tales & Living Verse of Ulaid	by Colin T. Mercer Oct. 28, 2011	$2.99	20405 words	Sample 10%
	Ireland has a rich and proud history, of tragedies and triumphs, of ghosts. It is a land of special resonances. It is therefore befitting that among his own explorations in verse of what his land means to him, Colin T. Mercer should interweave a series of ghost stories while his original poetry stands in awe of, and daily inspired by, the magnificence of the countryside of Ulaid.
	Reflections	by William Andrews Oct. 28, 2011	$1.50	1471 words	Sample 20%
	Has the life you do not wish for already begun
	C.Sense	by William Andrews Oct. 28, 2011	$1.50	1342 words	Sample 15%
	Escaping from common logic is some times mistaken for freedom
	When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems	by John Hughes Oct. 12, 2011	$3.00	11912 words	Sample 15%
	When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems is about how relationships form and dissolve in the most unlikely of places, how the old wars of the heart bemuse and confound.
	Flowering Off the Chrome	by John Hughes Oct. 10, 2011	$3.44	6065 words	Sample 20%
	Flowering Off the Chrome is a collection of symbolic poetic projections into the rural landscape. Removed from the urban sprawl, set during midsummer and narrated through a series of dramatic monologues, Hughes has created a rich sequence of see-sawing yarns about the comings and goings on a farm he knew as a child. Looking back through the eyes of an old man who chose to remain and work the land.
	Alone Among Many	by Spargo Postle Oct. 09, 2011	$7.99	4933 words	Sample 10%
	As a contemporary poet Spargo Postle recognises the loneliness and isolation we can all encounter, even when we are seemingly among many others. His poetry expresses what we all feel but are unable to speak of, out loud... Selected by Spargo Postle himself for a paperback edition includes We Are Lonely, A Man Of Few Words and I'm scared of the darkness...
	Twelve Poems Then Bedtime	by Richard Parr Oct. 05, 2011	Free!	2115 words	Read a sample
	A miniature collection of twelve poems about historical events, artifacts, nature, social class, flight and indecision.
	Anonymous Lines	by David Francis Barker Oct. 04, 2011	$2.99	6515 words	Sample 10%
	AT THE BOOK SIGNING He was there I tell you, all hair and no apologies. In fact, exactly as you might expect; unkempt, without a care in this world. Then somewhere in the queue an old woman whispered, 'he should get his hair cut!' It was at that point I got close enough .......
	Poems of Life	by Christopher John Scott Sep. 27, 2011	Free!	1423 words	Read a sample
	Life is full of happiness, heartbreak joy and sadness. My first collection of poems tries to reflect the many emotions we go through in our early lives as adults.
	Sayings	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.00	1110 words	Sample 10%
	Still Trying to find my way home
	If	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1284 words	Sample 15%
	Travel the road behind my eyes
	Reasons	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1511 words	Sample 15%
	Do you put flesh on the bones of your skeletons that hide in a place that you fear
	Sense	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1516 words	Sample 10%
	Thoughts on what I think
	A Haven of Shades	by Helen Young Sep. 22, 2011	$2.29	1165 words
	A collection of poetry from the darker shades of life.
	The Heart and The Hand	by Dean Harkness Sep. 21, 2011	$0.99	1477 words	Sample 20%
	A small collection of poems on the subjects of love, loss, sex and death. Some humorous and some more sombre.
	Death Rattle	by John Hughes Sep. 21, 2011	$1.57	20277 words	Sample 16%
	Death Rattle is an honest kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation, joy and abandonment that beats within the city’s restless heart. It is a trilogy comprising of poems, narratives, lyrics and aphorisms, where the duality of the city and the rural fuse.Through choice encounters, flinty wit, ruthless reasoning and solemn reflection, Hughes casts a wistful eye upon the menagerie of the city.